Curriculum Vitae
Academic Career
| Since 2016 | University of Geneva, Switzerland |
| Assistant Professor (SNF Research Group) | |
| 2013-2016 | Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, New Haven, USA |
| YCAA Prize Fellowship | |
| 2010-2013 | UC Santa Cruz, UCO/Lick Observatory, USA |
| Hubble Fellowship | |
| 2010 | PhD in Physics; ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| “13 Gyr of Galaxy Evolution”; Advisor: Prof. C. Marcella Carollo | |
| 2006-2010 | ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| Research and Teaching Assistant | |
| 2006 | Masters in Physics; ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| “The faint-end slope of the z~5 UV Luminosity Function” | |
| 2004-2006 | ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| Teaching Assistant |
Fellowships and Awards
| 2013 | YCAA Fellowship |
| 2010 | Hubble Fellowship |
| 2010 | ETH Medal for outstanding PhD Thesis |
| 2009 | ETH Extragalactic Astrophysics Excellence Award |
Select PI Observing Programs
“Physical Properties of Lyman Continuum Emitter Candidates at z~2-3”
VLT/Xshooter programs 099.A-0758 and 0101.A-0543
22 hrs VLT spectroscopy
“The GOODS UV Legacy Fields: A Full Census of Faint Star-Forming Galaxies at z~0.5-2”
Hubble Space Telescope, Cycle 22, GO-13872
132 orbit, Large WFC3/UVIS Treasury Survey
“A Spectroscopic Redshift for the Most Luminous Galaxy Candidate at z~10”
Hubble Space Telescope, Cycle 22, GO-13871
12 orbit, WFC3/IR grism observations
“The ultra-deep IRAC Legacy over GOODS: From the Earliest Galaxies to the Peak of Cosmic Star-Formation”
Spitzer Space Telescope, Cycle 10, PID: 10076
Exploration Science Program (200 hr + 612 hr)
Community and Professional Services
| 2009 - now | Referee for ApJ, ApJL, MNRAS, MNRAS-Letters, A&A |
| 2019 | SOC member, Subaru Telescope's 20th Anniversary Conference |
| 2019 | SOC member, Extremely Big Eyes on the Early Universe, Rome Edition |
| 2019 | Co-organizer and SOC member of EWASS Special Symposium "Extragalactic UV astronomy: challenges and future prospects" |
| 2018 | SOC member, EWASS Special Symposium: Exploring the high-redshift Universe in advance of JWST |
| 2017 | Co-chair of SOC, EWASS Special Symposium: Unraveling the first billion years with next-generation observatories and modeling |
| 2016 | Co-chair of SOC, The Reionization Epoch: New Insights and Future Prospects, at the Aspen Center for Physics |
| 2015 | Co-chair Hubble Space Telescope TAC |
| 2013 | Panel Member Hubble Space Telescope TAC |
| 2013 | Referee for CFHT time allocation of Taiwan |
| 2012 | PhD thesis committee member for Valentino Gonzalez, UCSC |